Human embryos briefly exhibit traits like tails and gill-like structures, revealing our evolutionary history and deep ...

The gills that aren’t gills ... The tail we all had: During our early weeks in the womb, human embryos develop something entirely unexpected—a tail! For a time, this tail is prominent and ...

They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be ...

Sharks are more sought-after than ever. Yet, recreational anglers have become increasingly irate toward these species, ...

I’ve limited myself to a monthly ‘hate-listen’ ever since the strangely mute ‘Xander’ – the test-tube offspring of resident Lovely Gay Couple Adam and Ian – was ‘birthed’ by a Bulgarian fruit-picker ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that lived more than 1.1 million years ago, according to new research.

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

The discovery clashes with the traditional image of humans evolving on the savannas of East Africa. By Carl Zimmer For generations, scientists looked to the East African savanna as the birthplace ...